A US service member in Iraq has been killed by an explosive device outside Mosul, according to a statement released by the Pentagon.
The Pentagon said the service member died from wounds sustained in an "explosive device blast," stating further information would be released as appropriate.
Saturday's incident marks the second American military fatality since the start of the Mosul operation against the Islamic State group more than six months ago.
In October, just days after the operation to retake Mosul was formally launched, Navy chief petty officer Jason C. Finan, 34, of Anaheim, California died of wounds sustained in a roadside bomb attack north of Mosul.
Finan was part of a team of advisers assisting Iraq's Kurdish fighters known as the Peshmerga.
The Pentagon has acknowledged more than 100 US special operations forces are operating with Iraqi units in and around Mosul, with hundreds more playing a support role in staging bases farther from the front lines.
The service member killed on Saturday is the fifth combat death in Iraq since the US launched military operations against the Islamic State group in August 2014.
IS fighters began growing in power in Iraq in early 2014 in the country's west and in the summer of 2014 swept across much of the country's north.
Since the beginning of the US campaign against IS in Iraq, the number of US troops in the country has steadily grown.
There are now more US forces in Iraq than any time since the 2011 US withdrawal, marking an intensifying war as Iraqi forces and the US-led coalition work to push IS out of the last pockets of territory the extremists control in Iraq.
